Hundred-Stanza Renga by Gail Sher and Andrew Schelling ...
Hundred-Stanza Renga by Gail Sher and Andrew Schelling ...
Hundred-Stanza Renga by Gail Sher and Andrew Schelling ...
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S<strong>and</strong> Hill Cranes<br />
rise from the stubble field’s first snow—<br />
ice wrinkling the Platte<br />
(8) winter<br />
now I am thinking that<br />
immolation is wrong<br />
(9) travel<br />
pawprints, criss-cross trails,<br />
green tracks in the mud—<br />
I, too, take the Great Journey<br />
(10) travel<br />
the truth of its clothes<br />
in the cold hall, think of clothes<br />
(11) lamentations<br />
she thinks that had she become a nun<br />
something about coats<br />
light as soft as yellow foxes fur<br />
(12) love<br />
now her cloister’s<br />
a careless bedsheet across her thighs<br />
(13) love<br />
like a tree’s shadow in darkness, she says<br />
seated in her flesh<br />
watching young night creep behind the massif<br />
(14) love
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